RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. n.d. Radicle / Draft of Forms of flowers. CUL-DAR209.5.129-131. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR209.5 contains materials on movements of radicals for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880). The text of the draft corresponds to Forms of flowers, pp. 211-12.
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No one has raised illegitimate offspring from [text excised] species of in this genus. Hildebrand sowed some such illegitimately fertilised seeds *(*Bot. Zeitung 1871 p 433, footnote.) but they did not germinate; and this fact, as he remarks, ca supports my view that an illegitimate union resembles a hybrid are union between two distinct species, for many of the seeds in this latter case are often incapable of germination. The following observations relate solely to the nature of the forms which appear among the offspring seedlings of Oxalis.) (Beech Hildebrand raised, as
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